Moths in a human suit (they/them)
@lycomorpha.bsky.social
A collection of moths trying to cosplay a human interdisciplinary artist. MedSci escapee, always drawing or making paint. In my chaos-bisexual-enby-hag era. Moths, paint-making, disability, & art-related sh*t-posting. lycomorpha.etsy.com
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Bemused at all the people suddenly following me, so uhh.
Hi? Here's some things to know.
I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you.
I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…
Hi? Here's some things to know.
I swear a lot. If you're offended by words like wankspangled knobcockle, I'm not for you.
I post many moths & other bugs. I talk/yell about alt text, chronic life, pencils, & paint. I post paint-making a lot…
My optician cranked all my specs up a notch recently.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
My optician cranked all my specs up a notch recently.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
Still getting used to where to put my face relative to phones etc.
I feel like this combined with a phone that likes aggressively switching language mid-sentence… it's gonna end in me accidentally texting profanity to some in-law or something.
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You know a good giveaway that 'using whistles is disabilist' is not rooted in good faith or community care? I have seen no serious discussion about how to include Deaf/HoH folks in rapid notification. How are we quickly notifying targeted Deaf/HoH folks who can't hear whistles/shouts?
Don't think I don't notice that you are NOWHERE when disabled people are asking for your help and you just like to trot us out when it is convenient.
February 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
You know a good giveaway that 'using whistles is disabilist' is not rooted in good faith or community care? I have seen no serious discussion about how to include Deaf/HoH folks in rapid notification. How are we quickly notifying targeted Deaf/HoH folks who can't hear whistles/shouts?
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Refocus. It’s still survival for Nya & her family of eight, who remain displaced in a tent. Inattention means families go without, and it’s what the occupation wants from us.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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February 2, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Refocus. It’s still survival for Nya & her family of eight, who remain displaced in a tent. Inattention means families go without, and it’s what the occupation wants from us.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
Help them survive with winter supplies & more. Give/find their link here.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I started outlining this tonight, rolling over the graphite with a putty eraser to lighten it & going over the outline with colour pencil.
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I started outlining this tonight, rolling over the graphite with a putty eraser to lighten it & going over the outline with colour pencil.
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
But 1st I spent chuffing ages trying to find the kinda compass's you can put a pencil in. I've 6 that have the little tiny leads. 🙃
#FebruaryFrost26
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Prompt list here!! Excited to see what you all make!
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
February 1, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Prompt list here!! Excited to see what you all make!
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
Use #FebruaryFrost26 when posting your art to participate :))
I got one of these pins for xmas and it's utterfuckingly delightful, can recommend!
My miniature tree identification pins are finally back in stock and the 2nd edition is better than ever! Please share them around so people can see 💚 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
February 2, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I got one of these pins for xmas and it's utterfuckingly delightful, can recommend!
Decided to have a go at this prompt list since it's weekly. Gives me time to do a lil bit each day!
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Decided to have a go at this prompt list since it's weekly. Gives me time to do a lil bit each day!
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
#FebruaryFrost26 prompt 1: Snowdrops and Nocturnal
Making a sketch of snowdrops with a moth halo. Doing it on a light panel with a grid under paper to keep myself in line. 😂 Drew 1 moth & traced it…
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Paris Green was a pigment created in 1814 and was used by many artists at the time. It was also VERY dangerous because of it was full of arsenic! Here's a self portrait, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. He used Paris Green in the background.
February 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Paris Green was a pigment created in 1814 and was used by many artists at the time. It was also VERY dangerous because of it was full of arsenic! Here's a self portrait, painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. He used Paris Green in the background.
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Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
February 1, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Fist bump to anyone else caught between the need to bow down & accept the dire, broken reality of the attention economy to continue surviving via their creativity & a desire to disconnect which becomes more vast, and more potentially vital to their sense of inner peace, with every year that passes.
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Congratulation to Alaya Dawn Johnson! Alaya's novelette “The Shadow on the Nest” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list! You can read it here! buff.ly/UAnjN1F
February 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Congratulation to Alaya Dawn Johnson! Alaya's novelette “The Shadow on the Nest” is on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading list! You can read it here! buff.ly/UAnjN1F
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My chemistry degrees just began spontaneously weeping on the wall.
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
BEHOLD! The glyphosate-aluminum-fluoride complex! Found here:
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
gmoscience.org/2026/01/26/t...
February 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
My chemistry degrees just began spontaneously weeping on the wall.
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
On the bright side, we’ve now discovered a more terrifying ALF on bsky than the one of @faineg.bsky.social’s making
Small joys in a fkd up world:
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Small joys in a fkd up world:
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
It's Sunday and I made fancy milk porridge, with raisins, ginger, cardamom and cinnamon.
(I know. What a wild-party-merry-go-round existence I have, eh? 😂)
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Well worth reading this piece.
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
![From the piece, on Sex Matters:
They celebrated with a letter to the CEO of NHS England demanding an end to gender affirming care, bragging that
"Children under the care of all gender services both NHS and private, must now be told that they will never be able to access spaces or services for the opposite sex, no matter what legal or medical steps they take now or in the future.
"Passing as the opposite sex ceases to be a desirable goal to present to children when they will never be permitted to use spaces or services for the opposite sex, and may in future be restricted in employment in roles such as police officer or nurse
"Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young people. We have always argued that it was unethical and a breach of human-rights principles to promise [young people] that they could intrude on other people's privacy, safety and dignity ... by using spaces for the opposite sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4xnkejnt37mkg7td4vkzuxe/bafkreicm2mb5gp2vswrslaqb3agze3n42fzdvxuxtufg42btp6urkdqekm@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Well worth reading this piece.
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
I hadn't realised that #SexMatters had been so explicit in their intentions re trans children, specifically. This is the horror they are knowingly visiting on kids. And they dgaf if the kids kill themselves. Which a lot of them are (see @goodlawproject.org's posts).
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another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
a lot of new eyes this week.
hi, we're mox. we devote one day a week to trying to pay our bills. today is unfortunately that day.
if you are new, we do things differently than most. it's the only way that doesn't feel gross.
thank you. stay safe.
artbymox.shop/our-model
hi, we're mox. we devote one day a week to trying to pay our bills. today is unfortunately that day.
if you are new, we do things differently than most. it's the only way that doesn't feel gross.
thank you. stay safe.
artbymox.shop/our-model
January 31, 2026 at 5:44 PM
another week of ✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨ where thinking about the ethics of trying to make a living in this moment in history makes us feel like turning our skin inside out
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
hi new people. hi old people. hi creatures who dont identify as people.
we love you.
please buy art. or dont.
I'm not saying I've had a ridiculous amount of paintmaking on the go lately but uhh... Yeah.
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
January 31, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I'm not saying I've had a ridiculous amount of paintmaking on the go lately but uhh... Yeah.
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
I store paint in syringes between filling pans in layers, and turn them upside down every day to stop pigment settling out at one end.
That washing up pile of finished syringes tho, OMFGs. 😬
Kitty went to a cookware shop. I decided not to go with them.
I regret my choices.
Now there's a bunch of things in our kitchen that there is definitely not room for, they're just cackling at the shiny new things, & pls send halp.
I regret my choices.
Now there's a bunch of things in our kitchen that there is definitely not room for, they're just cackling at the shiny new things, & pls send halp.
January 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Kitty went to a cookware shop. I decided not to go with them.
I regret my choices.
Now there's a bunch of things in our kitchen that there is definitely not room for, they're just cackling at the shiny new things, & pls send halp.
I regret my choices.
Now there's a bunch of things in our kitchen that there is definitely not room for, they're just cackling at the shiny new things, & pls send halp.
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"Worrying is for us poors without a security detail."
*S'inquiéter, c'est pour nous, pauvres gens sans protection.*
*S'inquiéter, c'est pour nous, pauvres gens sans protection.*
"these indifferent elite boneheads neglected to prevent any of the fascist nonsense happening. In fact, they actively perpetuate suffering on the global South & get away with it because they're not tweeting out garbage at 3 AM like Trump"
@redderbeanpaste.bsky.social's "A hater's" articles are great
@redderbeanpaste.bsky.social's "A hater's" articles are great
A Hater's Primer on Davos and the World Economic Forum
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International relations. They're not doing well right now. Trump's administration does not regard them as very important to maintain, respect or preserve. We've heard th...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:24 PM
"Worrying is for us poors without a security detail."
*S'inquiéter, c'est pour nous, pauvres gens sans protection.*
*S'inquiéter, c'est pour nous, pauvres gens sans protection.*
It's Friday. The world may be a shit-show full of picklefuckers, but please remember to take your meds. Even it's only cos fascists hate the fact than chronically ill & disabled people get to exist.
Spite fascists: look after your spoonie self, even one tiny bit. 😘
Spite fascists: look after your spoonie self, even one tiny bit. 😘
January 30, 2026 at 11:45 PM
It's Friday. The world may be a shit-show full of picklefuckers, but please remember to take your meds. Even it's only cos fascists hate the fact than chronically ill & disabled people get to exist.
Spite fascists: look after your spoonie self, even one tiny bit. 😘
Spite fascists: look after your spoonie self, even one tiny bit. 😘
Wasn't that also Boris bastardtittyfucking Johnson's original plan?
Cos that worked out so friggin well, dint it... 🤨
Cos that worked out so friggin well, dint it... 🤨
The NIH Director (Bhattacharya) and Deputy Director (Memoli) recently published their “plan” for US pandemic preparedness—it was essentially to do nothing other than to persuade American individuals to get healthier, so that the healthy would survive the next pandemic. Survival of the fittest.
16/n
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January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Wasn't that also Boris bastardtittyfucking Johnson's original plan?
Cos that worked out so friggin well, dint it... 🤨
Cos that worked out so friggin well, dint it... 🤨
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getting away from reference photos helps me focus on the possibilities of the medium, and this piece was a test of using 100% cotton paper, which will keep wet areas wet for much much longer than cellulose or other substrates. that's how i could get gouache to blend the way it does in the clouds.
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
getting away from reference photos helps me focus on the possibilities of the medium, and this piece was a test of using 100% cotton paper, which will keep wet areas wet for much much longer than cellulose or other substrates. that's how i could get gouache to blend the way it does in the clouds.
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Doing some gouache studies from remembered places this week to keep my hand in while I'm at the digital stage on a few pieces of art:
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Doing some gouache studies from remembered places this week to keep my hand in while I'm at the digital stage on a few pieces of art:
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It's Friday. Please enjoy this tidy fungus. And this page of associated fungi sketchbook carnage 🍄✏️
December 22, 2023 at 3:28 PM
It's Friday. Please enjoy this tidy fungus. And this page of associated fungi sketchbook carnage 🍄✏️
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A propos de la ligne ténue entre coercition et pression sociale dans le cadre du débat sur l'euthanasie, et des raisons pour lesquelles il ne faut pas se limiter à analyser les risques de coercition franche et directe.
Une des conclusions à en tirer: vous, validistes, ne verrez pas le poids (considérable) de la pression validiste dans le """libre choix""" de la mort des handis.
Ils *sont* dans les chiffres, hein. Mais vous ne les *verrez* jamais. Parce que vous vous arrêtez au fait que personne ne fout un littéral
Ils *sont* dans les chiffres, hein. Mais vous ne les *verrez* jamais. Parce que vous vous arrêtez au fait que personne ne fout un littéral
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 PM
A propos de la ligne ténue entre coercition et pression sociale dans le cadre du débat sur l'euthanasie, et des raisons pour lesquelles il ne faut pas se limiter à analyser les risques de coercition franche et directe.